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Another of the VOID watches to feature in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the V02 also designed by David Ericsson. The V02 polished is now only £85 (UK and EU) or £70.83 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Dezeen promotion: French furniture brand Roche Bobois has produced a movie featuring its Mah Jong sofa, which has been reinterpreted by a group of artists for a charity auction (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Taut rope is all that holds together this furniture by Dutch design graduate Toon Welling. (more…) View the full article

News: researchers at Bristol University in the UK have developed a way for users to get tactile feedback from touchscreens while controlling them with gestures in mid-air. (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on Li Edelkoort's claim that fashion is dead, Ikea's new furniture range that wirelessly charges smartphones and a photography series documenting Turkey's vibrant architecture (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

This raw concrete house in Tokyo was designed by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates as a family home for a couple whose interests include contemporary art and cars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Iconic buildings, from Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre to Zaha Hadid's Glasgow Riverside Museum, have been transformed into classic movie posters in the latest series by Italian illustrator Federico Babina. (more...) View the full article

News: the forthcoming National Stadium of Japan by Zaha Hadid Architects is now set to become the main sporting venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, following the news that Tokyo will be the host city. (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles design brand Sempli has launched a set of glasses designed for enjoying different types of craft beer. (more…) View the full article

Max Lamb used waste cotton and wool to create 12 benches for a Milan design week installation that aims to challenge the architecture and design industries to rethink their use of resources. Read more View the full article

The shortlist for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize and Airbnb's rebrand fiasco lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 211. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 211 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Bamboo architects: architects in China are turning to bamboo as a cheap and sustainable building material, according to Dylan Baker-Rice, principal at Hong Kong studio Affect-T (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has hollowed the huge tilted volume of this weekend getaway along the Pacific Ocean in Chile to form an opening for a fire inside. Read more

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius, who explains how she grew up on a tomato farm and discovered her creative ability when she took an evening course in carpentry. Read more View the full article

We've launched our World Design Guide interactive map of the London Design Festival 2013, featuring 100 of the best events across London from 14-22 September. (more...) View the full article

A canopy of tree-like timber columns crowns the double-height living space at the centre of this polycarbonate-clad house, which JK-AR has completed in South Korea. Read more

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has presented its autumn/winter 2020 collection on a purposefully flooded catwalk to draw attention to the threat of climate change and rising sea levels. Read more View the full article

A theatre has opened in London's Soho that can be completely reconfigured at the touch of a button. Read more View the full article

In this final instalment of clips that Dezeen filmed for the Design Museum Collection App, director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic discusses a wide variety of objects including the Singer sewing machine, Shepard Fairey‘s Obama Poster, the AK-47 rifle and the Mothercare nappy. (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Tino Seubert has combined anodised aluminium and hand-woven wicker to create a furniture collection, which is designed to evoke the contrast between old and new design. Read more View the full article

Undulating concrete panels will form the facade of VÅGA, a large water tower planned for a hilltop in Varberg, Sweden, to create the impression of a wave rolling across the landscape. Read more

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a flying robot that can guide people around complex urban environments or aid search-and-rescue missions, in an attempt to show that drones can perform useful tasks as well as sinister ones (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

German studio Von M has rebuilt the interior of an apartment block in Stuttgart to create a trio of open-plan homes where built-in furniture divides rooms and stark walls are offset with colourful objects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Geneva Motor Show 2015: car manufacturers are helping to change outdated perceptions of hybrid and electric vehicles by using the technologies in faster, sleeker cars, finds Dezeen's motoring correspondent Ross Bryant. (more…) View the full article

Adidas has partnered with designer Fabio Novembre to create patches for its VRCT jacket — a customisable and adaptive take on the American college classic. Read more View the full article